Governing the City in China: From Maoist Aesthetics to Modern Planning

Carolyn Cartier (AB, MA, PhD University of California, Berkeley) is a professor of geography and China studies at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research focuses on the urban administrative divisions in China in addition to topics in urban cultural politics and consumerism. She is chief investigator of “The Geography of Power in China: Urban Expansion and Administrative Empire,” a collaboration with the Center for Research on the Administrative Divisions in China, funded by the Australian Research Council. Her publications include Globalizing South China (2001) and the co-edited collections The Chinese Diaspora: Place, Space, Mobility and Identity (2003) and Seductions of Place: Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes (2005). Her current monograph project is “Territorial Urbanization and the Party-state in China.”